Guardian's Cut
Disclaimer: I don't own and blah blah blah. I've said it about nine times anywayz.
Warnings: magic, AU
Rating: PG
Pairings: 1+2+1, 3+4+3
Chapter 9 Where'd you get these cards anywayz?
Quatre and Duo rushed into the room with their dates close behind. They frantically searched the common room before seeing Faulk on the couch, just staring into the light. Duo walked in front of him and pulled him up by the collar of his shirt. "Where is she?" he growled. Faulk looked passed him and back into the fire. "She's asleep in her room" Faulk answered. "Put him down Duo!" Quatre commanded. Duo let him go and sat next to Faulk. "Sorry man. It's just that we haven't seen her." Duo explained. "She's fine. Just a little shaky. I don't think she'll want to see the sun tomorrow though," Faulk continued. Trowa took a step forward. "What are you talking about?" he asked. Duo and Quatre's heads both snapped to Trowa, their expressions were wide and surprised. Duo cursed under his breath and shook his head. Quatre walked to Trowa. He looked up and smiled, shaking his head. "There's to many people that know already. We shouldn't say anymore." Quatre explained. Trowa slowly nodded. "It's getting late," he said, kissing Quatre on the forehead. "I better get back to my house." Quatre nodded with a blush. "Meet us back here after breakfast. K?" Trowa nodded and left through the portrait. Duo looked up at Heero. Heero nodded and left too. Duo growled and leaned back in his seat. "What happened?" Duo mumbled. Faulk stood up and started for his room. "I shouldn't say," he answered and disappeared into the stairs. Quatre sat next to Duo and tilted his head to the ceiling. The room slowly thinned out until Duo and Quatre were the only ones in the common room. "Wasn't she with that guy from potions?" Quatre asked quietly. Duo nodded. "Wasn't he with a blonde?" Duo continued. "Then there was a small fight by him." Quatre added. "Bastard," Duo hissed putting two and two together. "He left her thinking it was going to be funny." Quatre leaned forward and stared at the couch underneath him. He suddenly got up and kneeled in front of the couch. "Are you gong insane Quat? What are you doing on the floor?" Duo asked looking at his friend. Quatre took out his wand and pointed to a stain on the light magenta couch. He quickly mumbled some words and the stain was illuminated. It showed to be a dark red stain, looking a lot like blood. "What happened?" Duo mumbled again.
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The sun rose with no clouds in the sky. All the girls had left the room to eat breakfast and left Rei alone under her dark blankets. She poked her head out of the blanket and saw Dumbledore sweep through the room and close the curtains. She sat up and looked down at her blanket. "Explain." Rei winced at the sound of his voice, but nodded. "Um, I was going to go to the dance with Klayton, but he ditched me. I went to the dance and heard him laughing about it to his friends. So I told him that he shouldn't play with my feelings threw him down and ran into the rain. I tripped and I was crying. I felt so weak because I didn't get any blood and I was crying out my own. Faulk walked me back and.. and." She looked away. "You took his blood and didn't soak any light." Rei nodded at Dumbledore's assumption. "Hm, well, I'll take you to the infirmary. You shall stay there until I come for you." "Am I in trouble?" "No, I'm just worried and on edge right now." He smiled down at her and ruffled her hair. "You look old," he said, "You need some meat, but no friends today. You need rest." Rei nodded and wrapped a thick blanket around herself.
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Quatre knocked on the girl's door. It slowly opened and a girl with brown curly hair poked her head out. She smiled at Quatre. "What can I do for ya?" Quatre smiled nervously back. "Um I was wondering if Rei was in there." The girl frowned and shook her head. "She ain't here." the girl answered and closed the door. Quatre turned around and went back down the stairs. He left the common room and met Trowa outside. Trowa leaning against a wall and looked up at Quatre. Quatre shook his head. "She's somewhere." Trowa reassured. Quatre nodded. "She must have went to the hospital wing." Quatre said quietly. "What else is bothering you?" "I found blood on the couch yesterday." "So?" Quatre sighed and stopped Trowa. Trowa looked down at him. Quatre stood on his tip-toes and Trowa leaned down. "Promise you won't say anything, but she's a vampire." Trowa stood straight up. His normally unemotional eyes were a little wider. Quatre nodded and started walking again with Trowa following soon after.
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"Why are we reading this journal?" Heero asked. "Not we," Duo corrected, "me." "Why aren't you looking for Rei?" "Why are you asking so many questions?" "Why aren't you looking for Rei, Duo?" Duo glanced up at Heero. "Listen, I know she's okay. Me and her have, er, a connection. It's hard to explain." Duo rambled. Heero nodded even though he didn't understand. Heero leaned towards Duo and started to skim through the light brown, worn pages.
Egypt is a magnificent place! There's so much magic tingling all around me. It's great to be with Millardo. He knows a lot about magic. I knew it the second I saw him that he wasn't normal. I can't believe he turned out to work for Gringotts in Egypt! Anyway, we started our first vacation together. We traveled through the magically hidden caverns of several pyramids. And that is where Millardo told me about the history of one of the many magics floating around. Ancient Egypt had cards too. To make it interesting they started to add magical elements to regular playing cards. Then the card games started to get dangerous and the four strongest magicians came up with four guardians for each suit to protect the game. But as in all good tales one of the magicians abused his power. Of course he was killed but the cards are in Gringotts now, locked away safely, I suppose. Maybe to be awakened, but anyway, the cards were sealed and the guardian's souls were separated.
Duo yawned and looked at Heero. Heero looked up at him and shrugged. "Playing cards?" Duo asked. Heero sat back. "Anything's possible." Heero answered. "Yeah," Duo said leaning forward, "but cards? I mean it's kind of corny or something."
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Rei let her eyes slowly open. All she saw was darkness around her. She blinked to make sure her eyes were open, then she slowly sat up. She let her eyes adjust to the pitch black darkness, as a vampire she could see in the darkest black. She looked around and saw that there were about three others in the room. She turned to the table beside her and flicked on a low light. Quatre and Duo were both leaning on each other, sleeping, while Faulk was asleep at a chair beside her bed. She looked at them all in surprise. //I thought Dumbledore said no visitors.// She mentally shrugged and smiled. She turned to Faulk and noticed that he was looking at her with his sleepy eyes. He sat up and rubbed his eyes. He yawned then smiled at her. "Hey," he greeted. She nodded and looked at the two sleeping at the window. "They were here longer than me," he said. Rei nodded. "You know you're beautiful when you're eyes are like that." She looked down at him and cocked her head in curiosity. "When you need the moon, like the first time I saw you, your eyes were all mirror like." Rei nodded as Faulk stood up. "I'll wake 'em." Rei rubbed her eyes and smiled when Duo shouted something out when he was awakened. Quatre went to Rei's side and hugged her. "Hey, how are you doing?" he asked. She shrugged and continued towards the window. Rain was tapping on the window and her white hospital gown (no open back!) wouldn't last in the rain. She sat on a bench in front of the window and drew her knees to her chin. Faulk sat on one side of her while Duo sat on the other side, his back was to the window and he was facing her. A silence came across them as Quatre fidgeted around with trying to ask about last night's happenings. But finally he broke the silence. "What happened last night?" Rei continued to stare into the dark clouds and pouring rain. "Nothing," she whispered. "What do you mean nothing?" Duo started, "We didn't see you at the party and then we found out that you're in your room. That doesn't sound like nothing." "Duo!" Quatre hissed. Rei shook her head. "Klayton ditched me. I found out when I went to the party. I got mad at him, gave him a piece of my mind, shoved him and started crying." "You didn't cry," Quatre whispered, but Rei nodded. Quatre sighed. "So that's how we got to this point then." "That and nobody had given me blood to drink, so I was thoroughly drained. Then Faulk saved me and then I went to sleep." Duo shook his head and looked up at the ceiling. "That doesn't explain the blood on the couch. Faulk sighed. "She was drained I knew that Dumbledore wouldn't have come in time, so.." he held out his arm as evidence. And there was a small thin red line where he had cut himself. Quatre looked away and sat on the hospital bed. "You're both okay now though, right." They both nodded and seemed to stare off into their own little dimensions. "It's getting late," Rei announced. "You guys should get to your rooms." Duo and Quatre both shook their heads. "We're not leaving until its morning." Duo said, crossing his arms over his chest. Rei sighed and looked over at Faulk, who stood up. "You guys have stuff to say. I'll go." Rei nodded and smiled when his warm lips brushed against her forehead. Duo and Quatre watched as he left, then they both looked to Rei. "Are you two.?" Quatre started. Rei nodded and brought her knees closer to her chin. Quatre took Faulk's place and looked over at Rei. "You've changed." he whispered. She shook her head. "Well, you're more careless. I wouldn't have imagined it from you." "And then you tried to lie to us," Duo continued. "I don't want you guys to worry. You two seem so happy with your boyfriends that I don't want to butt in." Duo sighed and nodded. He ran his had through his bangs. "Maybe we're growing apart." Rei shrugged. "We should do something together," Quatre exclaimed. They both turned to him while he nodded triumphantly. "We should all go to Hogsmeade and just go shopping or something. We all leave our boyfriends behind and just spend a day amongst ourselves." Duo's eyes lit up with excitement and he nodded vigorously. He turned his gaze to Rei who slowly nodded.
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In his strong hands laid a pale, limp girl. "What did you do?!" screamed the man who had the girl in his hands. The man across him shrugged and smiled. "I don't know why you're getting all riled up. She's my property. All of them are." The other man shook his long blond hair. "You abused it! No wait this isn't like you. When you took that card his soul must have reached you." "So what if it had?" "Look what you did!" "One body is a ready exchange for another." "An innocent girl who wanted nothing more in life than to be happy." "The second her soul was put into that body she was mine." "She was never yours. You've changed Trieze, you don't know what you're talking about anymore. The cards never belonged to you and you know that." "It was my destiny to rule with these cards!"
GWA: What do you guys think? Is the story getting more interesting? If you give me suggestions I'll give you credit in my story. 'Oooh how fascinating!' (sarcasm of course) Okay so if you want to see your name on my fic send me a suggestion or a piece of a story! Send it to: butterflysign@hotmail.com And in the message box thingy put: GC Extra Spiffy? Cool then. Review!!!!! Byez!
Disclaimer: I don't own and blah blah blah. I've said it about nine times anywayz.
Warnings: magic, AU
Rating: PG
Pairings: 1+2+1, 3+4+3
Chapter 9 Where'd you get these cards anywayz?
Quatre and Duo rushed into the room with their dates close behind. They frantically searched the common room before seeing Faulk on the couch, just staring into the light. Duo walked in front of him and pulled him up by the collar of his shirt. "Where is she?" he growled. Faulk looked passed him and back into the fire. "She's asleep in her room" Faulk answered. "Put him down Duo!" Quatre commanded. Duo let him go and sat next to Faulk. "Sorry man. It's just that we haven't seen her." Duo explained. "She's fine. Just a little shaky. I don't think she'll want to see the sun tomorrow though," Faulk continued. Trowa took a step forward. "What are you talking about?" he asked. Duo and Quatre's heads both snapped to Trowa, their expressions were wide and surprised. Duo cursed under his breath and shook his head. Quatre walked to Trowa. He looked up and smiled, shaking his head. "There's to many people that know already. We shouldn't say anymore." Quatre explained. Trowa slowly nodded. "It's getting late," he said, kissing Quatre on the forehead. "I better get back to my house." Quatre nodded with a blush. "Meet us back here after breakfast. K?" Trowa nodded and left through the portrait. Duo looked up at Heero. Heero nodded and left too. Duo growled and leaned back in his seat. "What happened?" Duo mumbled. Faulk stood up and started for his room. "I shouldn't say," he answered and disappeared into the stairs. Quatre sat next to Duo and tilted his head to the ceiling. The room slowly thinned out until Duo and Quatre were the only ones in the common room. "Wasn't she with that guy from potions?" Quatre asked quietly. Duo nodded. "Wasn't he with a blonde?" Duo continued. "Then there was a small fight by him." Quatre added. "Bastard," Duo hissed putting two and two together. "He left her thinking it was going to be funny." Quatre leaned forward and stared at the couch underneath him. He suddenly got up and kneeled in front of the couch. "Are you gong insane Quat? What are you doing on the floor?" Duo asked looking at his friend. Quatre took out his wand and pointed to a stain on the light magenta couch. He quickly mumbled some words and the stain was illuminated. It showed to be a dark red stain, looking a lot like blood. "What happened?" Duo mumbled again.
*~*
The sun rose with no clouds in the sky. All the girls had left the room to eat breakfast and left Rei alone under her dark blankets. She poked her head out of the blanket and saw Dumbledore sweep through the room and close the curtains. She sat up and looked down at her blanket. "Explain." Rei winced at the sound of his voice, but nodded. "Um, I was going to go to the dance with Klayton, but he ditched me. I went to the dance and heard him laughing about it to his friends. So I told him that he shouldn't play with my feelings threw him down and ran into the rain. I tripped and I was crying. I felt so weak because I didn't get any blood and I was crying out my own. Faulk walked me back and.. and." She looked away. "You took his blood and didn't soak any light." Rei nodded at Dumbledore's assumption. "Hm, well, I'll take you to the infirmary. You shall stay there until I come for you." "Am I in trouble?" "No, I'm just worried and on edge right now." He smiled down at her and ruffled her hair. "You look old," he said, "You need some meat, but no friends today. You need rest." Rei nodded and wrapped a thick blanket around herself.
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Quatre knocked on the girl's door. It slowly opened and a girl with brown curly hair poked her head out. She smiled at Quatre. "What can I do for ya?" Quatre smiled nervously back. "Um I was wondering if Rei was in there." The girl frowned and shook her head. "She ain't here." the girl answered and closed the door. Quatre turned around and went back down the stairs. He left the common room and met Trowa outside. Trowa leaning against a wall and looked up at Quatre. Quatre shook his head. "She's somewhere." Trowa reassured. Quatre nodded. "She must have went to the hospital wing." Quatre said quietly. "What else is bothering you?" "I found blood on the couch yesterday." "So?" Quatre sighed and stopped Trowa. Trowa looked down at him. Quatre stood on his tip-toes and Trowa leaned down. "Promise you won't say anything, but she's a vampire." Trowa stood straight up. His normally unemotional eyes were a little wider. Quatre nodded and started walking again with Trowa following soon after.
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"Why are we reading this journal?" Heero asked. "Not we," Duo corrected, "me." "Why aren't you looking for Rei?" "Why are you asking so many questions?" "Why aren't you looking for Rei, Duo?" Duo glanced up at Heero. "Listen, I know she's okay. Me and her have, er, a connection. It's hard to explain." Duo rambled. Heero nodded even though he didn't understand. Heero leaned towards Duo and started to skim through the light brown, worn pages.
Egypt is a magnificent place! There's so much magic tingling all around me. It's great to be with Millardo. He knows a lot about magic. I knew it the second I saw him that he wasn't normal. I can't believe he turned out to work for Gringotts in Egypt! Anyway, we started our first vacation together. We traveled through the magically hidden caverns of several pyramids. And that is where Millardo told me about the history of one of the many magics floating around. Ancient Egypt had cards too. To make it interesting they started to add magical elements to regular playing cards. Then the card games started to get dangerous and the four strongest magicians came up with four guardians for each suit to protect the game. But as in all good tales one of the magicians abused his power. Of course he was killed but the cards are in Gringotts now, locked away safely, I suppose. Maybe to be awakened, but anyway, the cards were sealed and the guardian's souls were separated.
Duo yawned and looked at Heero. Heero looked up at him and shrugged. "Playing cards?" Duo asked. Heero sat back. "Anything's possible." Heero answered. "Yeah," Duo said leaning forward, "but cards? I mean it's kind of corny or something."
*~*
Rei let her eyes slowly open. All she saw was darkness around her. She blinked to make sure her eyes were open, then she slowly sat up. She let her eyes adjust to the pitch black darkness, as a vampire she could see in the darkest black. She looked around and saw that there were about three others in the room. She turned to the table beside her and flicked on a low light. Quatre and Duo were both leaning on each other, sleeping, while Faulk was asleep at a chair beside her bed. She looked at them all in surprise. //I thought Dumbledore said no visitors.// She mentally shrugged and smiled. She turned to Faulk and noticed that he was looking at her with his sleepy eyes. He sat up and rubbed his eyes. He yawned then smiled at her. "Hey," he greeted. She nodded and looked at the two sleeping at the window. "They were here longer than me," he said. Rei nodded. "You know you're beautiful when you're eyes are like that." She looked down at him and cocked her head in curiosity. "When you need the moon, like the first time I saw you, your eyes were all mirror like." Rei nodded as Faulk stood up. "I'll wake 'em." Rei rubbed her eyes and smiled when Duo shouted something out when he was awakened. Quatre went to Rei's side and hugged her. "Hey, how are you doing?" he asked. She shrugged and continued towards the window. Rain was tapping on the window and her white hospital gown (no open back!) wouldn't last in the rain. She sat on a bench in front of the window and drew her knees to her chin. Faulk sat on one side of her while Duo sat on the other side, his back was to the window and he was facing her. A silence came across them as Quatre fidgeted around with trying to ask about last night's happenings. But finally he broke the silence. "What happened last night?" Rei continued to stare into the dark clouds and pouring rain. "Nothing," she whispered. "What do you mean nothing?" Duo started, "We didn't see you at the party and then we found out that you're in your room. That doesn't sound like nothing." "Duo!" Quatre hissed. Rei shook her head. "Klayton ditched me. I found out when I went to the party. I got mad at him, gave him a piece of my mind, shoved him and started crying." "You didn't cry," Quatre whispered, but Rei nodded. Quatre sighed. "So that's how we got to this point then." "That and nobody had given me blood to drink, so I was thoroughly drained. Then Faulk saved me and then I went to sleep." Duo shook his head and looked up at the ceiling. "That doesn't explain the blood on the couch. Faulk sighed. "She was drained I knew that Dumbledore wouldn't have come in time, so.." he held out his arm as evidence. And there was a small thin red line where he had cut himself. Quatre looked away and sat on the hospital bed. "You're both okay now though, right." They both nodded and seemed to stare off into their own little dimensions. "It's getting late," Rei announced. "You guys should get to your rooms." Duo and Quatre both shook their heads. "We're not leaving until its morning." Duo said, crossing his arms over his chest. Rei sighed and looked over at Faulk, who stood up. "You guys have stuff to say. I'll go." Rei nodded and smiled when his warm lips brushed against her forehead. Duo and Quatre watched as he left, then they both looked to Rei. "Are you two.?" Quatre started. Rei nodded and brought her knees closer to her chin. Quatre took Faulk's place and looked over at Rei. "You've changed." he whispered. She shook her head. "Well, you're more careless. I wouldn't have imagined it from you." "And then you tried to lie to us," Duo continued. "I don't want you guys to worry. You two seem so happy with your boyfriends that I don't want to butt in." Duo sighed and nodded. He ran his had through his bangs. "Maybe we're growing apart." Rei shrugged. "We should do something together," Quatre exclaimed. They both turned to him while he nodded triumphantly. "We should all go to Hogsmeade and just go shopping or something. We all leave our boyfriends behind and just spend a day amongst ourselves." Duo's eyes lit up with excitement and he nodded vigorously. He turned his gaze to Rei who slowly nodded.
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In his strong hands laid a pale, limp girl. "What did you do?!" screamed the man who had the girl in his hands. The man across him shrugged and smiled. "I don't know why you're getting all riled up. She's my property. All of them are." The other man shook his long blond hair. "You abused it! No wait this isn't like you. When you took that card his soul must have reached you." "So what if it had?" "Look what you did!" "One body is a ready exchange for another." "An innocent girl who wanted nothing more in life than to be happy." "The second her soul was put into that body she was mine." "She was never yours. You've changed Trieze, you don't know what you're talking about anymore. The cards never belonged to you and you know that." "It was my destiny to rule with these cards!"
GWA: What do you guys think? Is the story getting more interesting? If you give me suggestions I'll give you credit in my story. 'Oooh how fascinating!' (sarcasm of course) Okay so if you want to see your name on my fic send me a suggestion or a piece of a story! Send it to: butterflysign@hotmail.com And in the message box thingy put: GC Extra Spiffy? Cool then. Review!!!!! Byez!